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To effectively serve as a trustee, it's crucial to understand your fiduciary duties. Even trustees with the best of intentions can create liability for themselves by being unprepared for the job or by not fully understanding their obligations. Learn more about some of the common mistakes family trustees make that can lead to lawsuits and other...

Serving as a trustee for your family can be a valuable experience for you, while also providing an important service to your family. But before you accept the position, make sure that you understand the role you will play for the family and are willing to accept the responsibilities and liability that come with it.

Ultimately, how well your wealth transfer plan fulfills your legacy and meets the needs of the next—and future—generations depends on whom you name as your trustee(s). This makes your trustee selection one of the most critical aspects of an already complex wealth planning process. To help navigate this selection process, work with a framework built...

FOX has recently taken a closer look at the various types of capital available to families and the offices that serve them. One category not yet discussed at our forums is TIME CAPITAL. Given the limited nature of time, it is essential to allocate, invest, spend, and cherish the time we have. Time, as we experience it, is not linear, yet why do ...

In the thriving family, learning and growing must be both individual and across the family system. In this breakout participants will learn how the 10x10 Learning Roadmap can be used to develop group learning programs for all family members and/or for specific cohorts. This session is complementary to the day two session that focuses on the i...

What is your superpower? If you don’t know, well, you don’t get to put on the cape. Based on his book, Design for Strengths: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths and Weaknesses, John will share the “Design Thinking” mindset and process out of Stanford University, ubiquitously used at Apple, Google, Amazon, a...

In this session, participants will explore a comprehensive framework designed to address the essential question: how might we build a strong and connected family of wealth? The discussion will center on the ten core competencies crucial at each life stage for navigating the unique challenges and opportunities that wealth brings. Attendees will be e...

Defining a family enterprise’s governance structures is a journey, not a destination. In this webcast Stephanie Traversy, Vice President of Personal Development and Governance at Bridgegreen Capital, will unpack four critical milestones along the path to purposeful governance. She’ll cover why families need to establish their higher purpose and lon...

For business and wealth creators, preserving the family in the midst of wealth is far more difficult than creating the wealth. Integrating second and third generations into ownership and decision-making is something business builders haven’t yet experienced. We focus on 14 strategies families can use to integrate rising generations and pass down re...

Over the past decade, matriarchs and patriarchs of successful families have been shifting their focus from their children to a broader group of individuals, such as grandchildren, siblings, and nieces. Often, they choose to create family banks, which are typically trusts that are funded to help individuals pursue entrepreneurial opportunities, vent...

Taking cues from entrepreneurs, families with great financial wealth would be well-served to create environments where their children can fail and in doing so, learn invaluable lessons about finance and resilience. While the older generations may set the tone by sharing their own stories about overcoming adversity, the rising generations will learn...

When it comes to reaching your family’s financial objectives and perpetuating its wealth, integrated family wealth planning is critical. A family governance system can significantly facilitate that process. This evergreen guide offers best practices and key elements of an effective family governance system, one that can be instrumental and flexible...

When done well, a trustee’s service can have a profoundly positive impact on a family; when done poorly, a trustee’s service can create or exacerbate fissures within a family, dissipate family wealth, create personal liability for the trustee, and create a public spectacle that sullies the family’s good name and reputation. For key employees in fam...

The death of a loved one is a difficult and emotional time for a family. There is often additional stress if you are appointed as the executor of the will and trustee of your family’s trusts, especially if the deceased had been the sole manager of substantial family assets and wealth. For an untrained person, it can be a daunting role. For these re...

Like many families, you may be involved in running businesses or other types of investments together with other family members, but is this necessarily the right choice? Should you consider breaking away and creating your own path. The decision on whether to stick together or unbundle collective assets into separate ownership and investment structu...